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KRAUTHAMMER..........TIDE IS TURNING AGAINST OBAMA...
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KRAUTHAMMER..........TIDE IS TURNING AGAINST OBAMA...
Great piece by Krauthammer............
Fate is fickle, power cyclical, and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the losing party is sagely instructed to confess sin, rend garments and rethink its principles lest it go the way of the Whigs. And where the victor is hailed as the new Caesar, facing an open road to domination.
And where Barack Obama, already naturally inclined to believe his own loftiness, graciously accepted the kingly crown and proceeded to ride his re-election success to a crushing victory over the GOP at the fiscal cliff, leaving a humiliated John Boehner & Co. with nothing but naked tax hikes.
Thus emboldened, Obama turned his inaugural and State of the Union addresses into a left-wing dream factory, from his declaration of war on global warming (on a planet where temperatures are the same as 16 years ago and in a country whose CO2 emissions are at a 20-year low) to the invention of new entitlements — e.g., universal preschool for 5-year-olds — for a country already drowning in debt.
To realize his dreams, Obama sought to fracture and neutralize the congressional GOP as a prelude to reclaiming the House in 2014. This would enable him to fully enact his agenda in the final two years of his presidency, usually a time of lame-duck paralysis. Hail the Obama juggernaut.
Well, that story — excuse me, narrative — lasted exactly six months. The Big Mo is gone.
It began with the sequester. Obama never believed the Republicans would call his bluff and let it go into effect. They did.
Taken by surprise, Obama cried wolf, predicting the end of everything we hold dear if the sequester was not stopped. It wasn’t. Nothing happened.
Highly embarrassed, and determined to indeed make (bad) things happen, the White House refused Republican offers to give it more discretion in making cuts. Bureaucrats were instructed to inflict maximum pain from minimal cuts, as revealed by one memo from the Agriculture Department demanding agency cuts that the public would feel.
Things began with the near-comical cancellation of White House tours and ended with not-so-comical airline delays. Obama thought furious passengers would blame the GOP. But isn’t the executive branch in charge of these agencies? Who thinks that a government spending $3.6 trillion a year can’t cut 2 percent without furloughing air traffic controllers?
Looking not just incompetent at managing budgets but cynical for deliberately injuring the public welfare, the administration relented. Congress quickly passed a bill giving Obama reallocation authority to restore air traffic control. Having previously threatened to veto any such bill, Obama caved. He signed.
Not exactly Appomattox, but coming immediately after Obama’s spectacular defeat on gun control, it marked an administration that had lost its “juice,” to paraphrase a charming question at the president’s news conference.
For Obama, gun control was a political disaster. He invested capital. He went on a multicity tour. He paraded grieving relatives. And got nothing. An assault-weapons ban — a similar measure had passed the Congress 20 years ago — lost 60-40 in a Senate where Democrats control 55 seats. Obama failed even to get mere background checks.
All this while appearing passive, if not helpless, on the world stage. On Syria, Obama was nervously trying to erase the WMD red line he had so publicly established. On Benghazi, he stonewalled accusations that State Department officials wishing to testify are being blocked.
He is even taking heat for the Boston bombings. Every day brings another revelation of signals missed beforehand. And his post-bombing pledge to hunt down those responsible was mocked by the scandalous Mirandizing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, gratuitously shutting down information from the one person who knows more than anyone about possible still-existent explosives, associates, trainers, future plans, etc.
Now, the screw will undoubtedly turn again. If immigration reform passes, Obama will be hailed as the comeback kid, and a new “Obama rising” narrative proclaimed.
This will overlook the fact that immigration reform has little to do with Obama and everything to do with GOP panic about the Hispanic vote. In fact, Obama has been asked by congressional negotiators to stay away, so polarizing a figure has he become.
Nonetheless, whatever happens, the screw will surely turn again, if only because of media boredom. But that’s the one constant of Washington political life: There are no straight-line graphs. We live from inflection point to inflection point.
And we’ve just experienced one. From king of the world to dead in the water in six months. Quite a ride.
Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, DC 20071. Send email to letters@charleskrauthammer.com.
If I am not mistaken this is the 314th (+ or - 3) thread that Trendy has started since November 6, 2012 (when we knew once and for all that Wisconsin and America were both "Trending" Obama) that has implied that the tide was finally turning against Obama.
I can't wait to see Trendy's 315th (+ or - 3) "Tide is Turning" Against Obama thread. I bet it will be a "Trend" setter!
The tide always turns against lame duck second term Presidents. Remember Bush and his privatization of SS and all that political capital he thought he had? No big news here...
I think ole Charles knew Obama was going to win but was to scared to actually say so...what he said was the math added up to a Obama win if the election were held right now but that Mitt would win because the improving economy was working in Mitt's favor!That is called talking out both sides of your ass...if he wanted to keep his job, he had to say that. He told the truth , that Obama was going to win , then had to backtrack because of Tea Tards like Whirly and JD!
"I feel like a presidential candidate, you quoted me out of context. I then continued to say that the election is not being held tomorrow and it's going to be held in November and Romney's going to win and I gave the reasons why that's true. And I've seen all over the internet people saying that I predicted Obama was going to win," syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer said about his prediction that Obama would win the election if it were held last week.
"And the reason why I said it at the time, which was two weeks ago, that Obama would win was not some deep analysis, I did the arithmetic. You take an average of the polls, the national polls, you put that together, that reduces the margin of error because you have a higher numerator and a higher denominator and if you're up by 2%, you're going to win. So that's not analysis, that's just pure math," Krauthammer explained.
If making a wrong prediction makes you not credible; Obama is King !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some of Obama's many wrong predictions:
- Unemployment won't go above 8.0%
- He'll cut the deficits in half in his first term
- His sequestration cuts will be devastating
- He'll veto any plan to water down his sequestration cuts - Obama later signed legislation giving authority to departments to shift funds around
- The list is too fucking long to recite........
Back to you Timmyboy..............
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Originally Posted by timpage
Krauthammer is a partisan hack.
BTW, here he is predicting a Romney win. So much for his crystal ball gazing about the tide turning....
KRAUTHAMMER..........TIDE IS TURNING AGAINST OBAMA...
